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The main purpose of many committees is "empire building." You have to have a broad base with yourself at the top to sell your ideas. It's a way to get 5 or 6 people to report to you even though you have no supervisory responsibilities. I used to work in "User Education" aka Bibliographic Instruction. Wow. We could create so many committees I couldn't believe it. But it looked good on my boss's resume. Start with an ad hoc group, then move into full committee mode. Churches also excell at this. Although we've now renamed committees, calling them "ministries." Our church has no committees, but we have 144 ministries.